Certainly lots of matches on Solr and facets. Contrived example: * Solr 1.4, etc. * Yellow pages, business listings. * Business listings have a zip code that I will use in Faceted search. * Companies with multiple stores/outlets/offices still only have one record, but all applicable zip codes are listed. (yes, others ways to solve this, I know) * I want each listing to show in all of it's zip codes when zip-code facets are presented * I declare one or more fields in schema.xml per the Wiki, etc. So 3 fields, etc.
The behavior I will actually get will be: (a) As described, a business in 3 zipcodes will show up under all 3 facets (b) Nope, only the first zip code will work correctly (c) Yes and No. Only the first zip code will show up in the facets. But I could certainly still search on the other codes and find that listing. If other businesses are in the other facets, a click on those zip codes will return my original business, but if it's the ONLY business in the zip code, the facet will not get displayed Normally I'd say (a). Playing with facets and reading online, this should be possible, though it may take 2 or 3 versions of the field. But why then would I even ask about (b) or (c) ? Well, there's stuff in the Wiki that makes me hesitate. First, look at this page: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrFacetingOverview First section, 3rd bullet point, where it says: "For faceting: Primary author only, using a solr.StringField: * Schildt, Herbert" Obviously if I were sorting on this field the first author would matter a lot. And it's a bit ambiguous which copy of the field I'm using, etc. Other things that cause me to hesitate: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml#Common_field_options The multiValued=true|false And this: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldOptionsByUseCase multiValued is left blank in many cases, and not filled in for facets. -- Mark Bennett / New Idea Engineering, Inc. / mbenn...@ideaeng.com Direct: 408-733-0387 / Main: 866-IDEA-ENG / Cell: 408-829-6513
